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The far Right German party of AFD and other right-wing populist parties want to create a united front in the new European Parliament and Matteo Salvin's Lega Nord is quite active in this regard.
"At a time when North Europe is busy with Brexit, the south is boiling in emotions," says the analyst Kay Alexander Scholtz.Italy is experiencing a major populist burst, and the last 500 toddler populists gathered there from six western countries, including Lega Giovani, the youth organization of Lega.
The 30-year league wants to start strongly in the European elections in May, and Scholtz's chances are not bad: according to polls, Matteo Salvin's party comes out of the main force.
But the Interior Minister of Italy is not content with that and has been organizing for months the efforts of joining right-wing populists in Europe. So far, the right-wing populists in the European Parliament were represented by three parliamentary groups, the EDF, the ANF and the EFDD, which did not had a successful cooperation between them, possibly due to discrepancies in content or a lack of communication.
But now ahead of the May European elections, it is clear that the goal is to create a single big new group.
According to media reports, up to 20 parties and groupings will join an "Alliance of Peoples of the European Nations" and within this initiative, Salvini plans an election tour in Germany.